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Claude LorrainClaude Le Lorrain (1600-1682) - Framed 18th Century Etching, Mercury and Argus18th Century and Earlier
18th Century and Earlier
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About the Item
A finely detailed etching by Claudio Gellee, better known as Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). This print is a later restrike of a seventeenth-century original, and depicts the myth of Mercury and Argus, as told in The Metamorphoses by Ovid. In the story, Jupiter (Zeus) falls in love with Io, a priestess of Hera. When his wife discovers the affair, Jupiter transforms himself into a bull and Io into a white heifer to hide from Hera's wrath. Hera sees through this deception and demands the heifer as a gift. To end the affair, she places Io under guard by the giant Argus Panoptes. Jupiter commands his son Mercury (Hermes) to free Io by lulling Argus to sleep with an enchanted flute, which is the moment pictured here. Mercury, disguised as a shepherd, is invited to Argus's camp, where he charms the giant with lullabies before beheading him. Well presented in a wooden frame with a gilt-effect slip. On laid. Image size: 16 x 22cm.
- Creator:Claude Lorrain (1604 - 1682, French)
- Creation Year:18th Century and Earlier
- Dimensions:Height: 13.39 in (34 cm)Width: 16.54 in (42 cm)
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- Condition:Signs of wear consistent with age, including some discolouration. Wear to the frame. Small loss to the lower left corner.
- Gallery Location:Corsham, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: su9221stDibs: LU881317253872
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain, born Claude Gellée, was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. He painted a pastoral world of fields and valleys not distant from castles and towns that entered into these quiet scenes. Landscape as a subject was distinctly nontraditional and secular during this time of religious and mythical iconography, and Gellée was certainly breaking with tradition. John Constable described the artist as the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw and declared that in Claude’s landscape, “all is lovely, all amiable, all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart." He passed away on November 23, 1682.
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